{"id":2244,"date":"2008-06-07T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2008-06-07T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T01:14:42","slug":"me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/07\/me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"me too!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iraq Lawmakers Want U.S. Forces Out as Part Of Deal<\/strong><\/a> <\/div>\n

A majority of the Iraqi parliament has written to Congress rejecting a long-term security deal with Washington if it is not linked to a requirement that U.S. forces leave, a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday. Rep. William Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat and Iraq war opponent, released excerpts from a letter he was handed by Iraqi parliamentarians laying down conditions for the security pact that the Bush administration seeks with Iraq. The proposed pact has become increasingly controversial in Iraq, where there have been protests against it. It has also drawn criticism from Democrats on the presidential election campaign trail in the United States, who say President George W. Bush is trying to dictate war policy after he leaves office.<\/p>\n

"The majority of Iraqi representatives strongly reject any military-security, economic, commercial, agricultural, investment or political agreement with the United States that is not linked to clear mechanisms that obligate the occupying American military forces to fully withdraw from Iraq," the letter to the leaders of Congress said. The signatures represented just over half the membership of Iraq’s parliament, said Delahunt, a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee chairman…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
"Iraq Lawmakers Want U.S. Forces Out as Part Of Deal." Me too! What this letter drives home is that the Bush Administration myth that their coerced "deal" is an Alliance instead of a Treaty is nothing more than a myth – just like the idea that a Base isn’t a Base if it has an Iraqi fence around it. I can see no way in the world the Iraqi people can be asked to permit our troops to stay there, if they are to retain anything at all like sovereignty. Spreading Democracy through international bullyism and extortion isn’t really part of our role in the world. <\/span>The good news is that this absurd attempt to lock their policies into the future must mean that Bush and Cheney get it that John McCain is not a slam dunk for the Presidency, not really even likely. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iraq Lawmakers Want U.S. Forces Out as Part Of Deal A majority of the Iraqi parliament has written to Congress rejecting a long-term security deal with Washington if it is not linked to a requirement that U.S. forces leave, a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday. Rep. William Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat and Iraq war opponent, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}